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Hideaway
A descendant of the father of our country in the Antone’s House Band? For three decades now, believe it!
Moontower 5: More Comics Announced
David Cross, Leslie Jones, and Colin Jost join the fest fun
A Case of Synchronicity
Director Jacob Gentry and star AJ Bowen reunite to rewrite history
Songwriter Symposium Launches Music Legends HOF
Austin Songwriters Group inducted Steven Fromholz and more
10 Minutes with Barrence Whitfield
Screamer/collector acknowledges Bowie but what of Otis Clay?
Ponytrap’s Robots Pound Out a Promethean Waltz at the Paramount
How do husband and wife duo Hilary & Quentin make music with robots?
The Gay Place: It’s Aliiive!
You can’t keep a Gay Place down; just ask Sarah Marloff
Austin Food + Wine Festival Tickets Go On Sale Today
More events, more celebrity chefs
Elementary, My Dear Hickey
Art critic Dave Hickey on being Watson to Ed Ruscha’s Holmes
Casual Strangers Trip Rhapsodic
Cosmic rock locals premiere “Holocene Dream”
All This and TNC’s Too!
First 2016 Council meeting promises plenty of action
News Roundup: Counties, Communities, Council
Municipal politics matter!
Paul Ray’s Magic
Twine Time’s origin story begins with friendship
Twine Time Host Paul Ray Dead at 73
Deejay, singer, and soul scholar had been hospitalized since November
Meals That Matter
Nubian Queen Lola rewarded for years of service
Kaki Lima Pop-Up at Sway, Sunday Supper at Prelog’s
Daily Austin food news
Bowie on the Big Screen
Looking back on the rare gems of the Diamond Dog
Spectrum Theatre’s Tribute to Boyd
African-American company’s gala salutes the great Boyd Vance
Marc Hoskins Enters the Precinct 1 Race
Consultant joins Dem primary for Commissioners Court
From the Archive: The Charlie Kaufman Canon
As Anomalisa opens in Austin, we revisit interviews and reviews
The Forest
Supernatural thriller is set in Japan’s Aokigahara Forest
Ride Along 2
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart partner again as mismatched cops
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Michael Bay lends his firepower to this war that’s not really a war
Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman goes inside the minds of puppets
Moonwalkers
A stoner comedy frames this moon-landing conspiracy-theory romp
Mustang
Five Turkish sisters fight the patriarchy in this widely hailed drama
Rajini Murugan
Tamil romantic comedy
Soggade Chinni Nayana
Telugu fantasy film
Express Raja
Telugu romance
Dictator
Telugu; no subtitles
Nannaku Prematho
Telugu action film and family drama
All You Need Is Pag-ibig
Filipino romantic comedy
Tharai Thappatai
Tamil musical drama
Telling Her Story
New web series explores trans identities
Holistic or Hiccup?
Council members ask for money for transit improvements for their districts
Public Notice: Tracking the Major Arcana
Planning Commission took votes related to Planned Unit Developments and Neighborhood Plan Contact Teams
Al Fico
Missed potential at Austin’s latest Italian restaurant
Work in Progress
Council members’ transportation projects
Quote of the Week
“You gotta give a damn about something.” – Shudde Fath to the Texas Observer in 2012. The longtime environmental and civic activist and city commissioner celebrated her 100th birthday this week.
PrintAustin: Inking Out Loud with Cathy Savage and Elvia Perrin
The third annual PrintAustin floods our artful river city with multiple originals
Talk, For Sure. But Action?
CodeNEXT holds community meeting, announces delay in rewrite process
Women and Children First
Immigration raids targeting families strike fear in Austin’s Latino community
Gun Sense
Groups rally in the wake of open carry
The Luv Doc: Road Trip!
Traveling is stressful – especially for people who like everything screwed down tight
Homeless Count Scheduled for Jan. 23
Count will be used to help understand the nature and extent of homelessness
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Many hospitals in China use the 4th floor for the morgue since the word for 4 in Mandarin sounds a lot like the word for death. In 1881, Democrats accused Republican Chester Alan Arthur of being ineligible for the presidency, claiming he was born in Canada. According to one antique car enthusiast, mites hate Bounce.…
Death Watch: Unhappy New Year
Masterson found guilty of capital murder of Shane Honeycutt, set to die Jan. 20
The Hightower Report
Why have major TV networks pulled the plug on Bernie?
Austin Symphony Orchestra With Jennifer Frautschi, Violin
The ASO’s latest musical tour of Russia took a literary turn
Charles Atlas / William Basinski
The artists’ live layering of video and music immersed audiences in images of suffering and transformation
Day Trips: Stiles, Texas
All that is left of West Texas ghost town is the stone ruins of the courthouse
Hornography: Seeing Sines
While the undefeated Lady Horns continue to mow down the competition, the men are looking wavy. First, in the terrible loss 58-57 to TCU – a squad they should’ve handled – the Horns lost sight, playing flat and down to the Horned Frogs. Having fallen to 9-6, the Horns were in danger of falling behind…
Dear Glutton: Three’s Company
Dear Glutton plans your post-threesome brunch
Soccer Watch
The second annual Austin Classico soccer tourney is coming up Saturday, Jan. 30. As part of Soccer Resort’s national 7v7 tournament series, local coed, men’s, women’s, and over-30/40 teams can compete against teams coming in from around the country and Canada. Sign up as a team – or as a single player and they’ll match…
The Take-Out
The lack of fine dining in Austin isn’t just about cost
Page Two: “Your Job Is to Get the Paper Out”
On the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, overwhelmed with wonder and the terrible history
Gay Place: I’m Not Gonna Miss You
Gay Place bids you adieu
Michelle Schumann and Graham Reynolds’ Joyful Noise
For their new Austin Chamber Music Center collaboration, the pianist and composer crank up the reverb but good
Playback: Ringo Deathstarr Awakens the Force
Ringo Deathstarr achieves a Pure Mood, Lench anthem decries Eastside gentrification, and a Pink Floyd scion takes root in Austin
Headlines
Hit the Road: City Council is a couple of weeks away from its next regular meeting (Jan. 28), leaving time for CodeNEXT deliberations and Uber maneuvers, as well as refining 10 district lists of mobility-related projects for a one-time windfall of Capital Metro Quarter-Cent sales tax funding. See “Holistic or Hiccup?,” Jan. 15. Another Country:…
A Perilous Journey
Mediterranea puts a real face on a topical subject
Point Austin: In Defense of the Public Square
We need to keep rejecting publicly the preposterous notion that ubiquitous guns make us safer
